James Shaw, Baron Kilbrandon

{{Short description|Scottish judge and law lord (1906–1989)}} {{Other people|Charles Shaw}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox officeholder | caption = Lord Kilbrandon in 1965 by Walter Bird | image = Lord Kilbrandon 1965.jpg | name = The Lord Kilbrandon | honorific_prefix = The Right Honourable | office = Lord of Appeal in Ordinary | office1 = Senator of the College of Justice | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100|PC}} | birth_name = Charles James Dalrymple Shaw | term_start = 4 October 1971 | term_end = 1976 | term_start1 = 1959 | term_end1 = 4 October 1971 | birth_place = Martnaham, Ayrshire, Scotland | alma_mater = Balliol College, Oxford<br />University of Edinburgh | death_place = Balvicar, Argyll, Scotland }}

'''Charles James Dalrymple Shaw, Baron Kilbrandon''', {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100|PC}} (15 August 1906 – 10 September 1989)<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.leighrayment.com/peers/peersK1.htm | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080608044757/http://www.leighrayment.com/peers/peersK1.htm | archive-date = 8 June 2008 | title = Leigh Rayment – Peerage | url-status = usurped | access-date =30 November 2009 }}</ref> was a Scottish judge and law lord.

==Family and education== He was the son of James Edward Shaw and his wife Gladys Elizabeth Lester (the daughter of the Rev. John Moore Lester and granddaughter of Lieutenant General Sir Frederick Parkinson Lester).<ref name = "Who's Who"/> Shaw was educated at Charterhouse School and went then to Balliol College, Oxford.<ref name = "Dod"/> He finally graduated at the University of Edinburgh.<ref name = "Dod"/> On 5 April 1937, he married Ruth Caroline Grant and had by her two sons and three daughters.<ref name = "Dod"/>

==Judicial career== Shaw was elected to the Faculty of Advocates in 1932 and was appointed its dean in 1957.<ref name = "Who's Who"/> After his military service in the Second World War, he was nominated a Queen's Counsel in 1949.<ref name = "Dod"/> He was Sheriff of Ayr and Bute from 1954 and subsequently Sheriff of Perth and Angus in 1957.<ref name = "Who's Who"/> Two years later, he became a Senator of the College of Justice and Lord of Session, choosing the judicial courtesy title '''Lord Kilbrandon'''.<ref name = "Who's Who"/> Shaw chaired the Scottish Law Commission in 1965.<ref name = "Dod"/> He was appointed a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary on 4 October 1971 and received the traditional life peerage as '''Baron Kilbrandon''', of Kilbrandon, in the County of Argyll.<ref>{{London Gazette | issue = 45489 |page=10769 | date = 7 October 1971 }}</ref> In the same year he was sworn of the Privy Council.<ref name = "Dod">{{cite book | author = Charles Roger Dod | author-link = Charles Roger Dod | author2 = Robert Phipps Dod| author2-link = Robert Phipps Dod | name-list-style = amp | title = The Parliamentary Companion | year = 1989 | publisher = Dod's Parliamentary Companion, Ltd. | location = Hurst Green, Sussex | isbn = 0-905702-14-X | pages = 167 }}</ref>

Shaw was chancellor of the Diocese of Moray, Ross and Caithness as well as of the Diocese of Argyll and The Isles and acted as director of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra.<ref name = "Who's Who">{{cite book | title = Who is Who 1963 | publisher = Adam & Charles Black Ltd. | location = London | year = 1963 | pages = 1683 }}</ref> He was chairman of the Scottish Transport Council and of the Standing Consultative Council on Youth Service in Scotland.<ref name = "Who's Who"/>

==Honours and legacy== During his career Shaw were awarded the honorary degrees of a Doctor of Laws by the University of Aberdeen and a Doctor of Science by his old alma mater, the University of Edinburgh.<ref name = "Dod"/> Gray's Inn made him an honorary bencher and Balliol College an honorary fellow.<ref name = "Dod"/>

His most important contribution to public life was probably his work as chairman of Royal Commission on the Constitution (commonly referred to as the Kilbrandon Commission) from 1972.<ref name = "The Scottish Government">{{cite web | url = http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2003/10/18259/26876 | title = The Scottish Government, Official Website – The Kilbrandon Report | access-date =30 November 2009 }}</ref> He also chaired a committee on children in trouble. Nearly all its recommendations were enacted in new bills and created the basic structures of child care practices and policies in Scotland.<ref name = "The Scottish Government"/>

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